A nationwide search has begun to find Chautauqua Institution’s next president. James A. Pardo Jr., Chair of the Institution’s Board of Trustees, today announced the appointment of a six-person committee that will lead the process to identify and select the Institution’s 18th president. The Institution’s goal is to name a successor to retiring President Tom Becker this fall. “This is an extraordinary time for Chautauqua Institution, and an extraordinary opportunity for a creative, high-energy leader to take the Chautauqua experience to a new level,” Pardo said. “With a new Amphitheater coming on line in 2017, we are truly excited by...
Internationally renowned Guest Artists round out the Chautauqua Opera Company’s 2016 season The Chautauqua Opera Company’s 2016 season will include mainstage productions of Giuseppe Verdi’s beloved opera La Traviata in the Amphitheater (July 9), directed by Keturah Stickann; Gilbert and Sullivan’s comedic gem The Mikado in Norton Hall (July 29 & Aug. 1), directed by Ned Canty; and a concert performance of Missy Mazzoli’s Song From the Uproar, in Chautauqua Opera’s first ever collaboration with the Logan Chamber Music Series (Aug. 8). “I am delighted that 2016 shows such a balance between debut artists, former Young Artists, featured roles for...
2017 Season to feature three mainstage productions, including the U.S. Stage Premiere of Respighi’s realization of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo Gity Razaz joins the company as the 2017 Composer-in-Residence, writing three commissions that will receive world premieres during the summer season The Chautauqua Opera Company’s 2017 season will include the U.S. Stage Premiere of Respighi’s sumptuous realization of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, in the new Chautauqua Amphitheater (July 8), directed by Keturah Stickann; Donizetti’s boisterous Don Pasquale (July 28 and 31), directed by David Schweizer, in Norton Hall; and Philip Glass’ and Allen Ginsberg’s chamber opera Hydrogen Jukebox (July 27 and August 1), directed...
(Chautauqua, N.Y.) — A local partnership team consisting of Chautauqua Institution, Jamestown Public Schools and the Chautauqua Lake Central School District has been named among 10 new inductees in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Partners in Education Program. Leaders from the three institutions will attend the 14th Partners in Education Institute from April 27 to April 30. The Institute promotes partnerships between arts organizations and local schools in communities across the nation, focusing on the development of education programs for teachers. The Chautauqua County team joins teams from Carmel, California; Naples, Florida; Pensacola, Florida; Mason City,...
National Historic Landmark was Home of Chautauqua Co-Founder; Hosted President Ulysses S. Grant, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. The Chautauqua Foundation has acquired the Lewis Miller Cottage, a National Historic Landmark and the only structure on the Chautauqua Institution grounds to carry that National Park Service designation. Thomas B. Hagen, a longtime Chautauquan, has been working for more than a year with Foundation and Institution leaders and the cottage’s owners, Miller descendants Ted Arnn and Nancy Kim Arnn, to enable CHQ to acquire the property. “When the cottage was put up for sale, I felt that the proper steward of this...
Tom Becker Leaves Three-Decade Legacy at Historic Center of Arts and Ideas Chautauqua Institution President Tom Becker is announcing his retirement, effective at the end of this calendar year, 2016. Becker has served as the 17th President of Chautauqua Institution since November of 2003. “Tom has devoted nearly half of his life and 100 percent of his energy to Chautauqua Institution. He and his wife Jane have spent substantial time thinking this important decision through, and their decision is a joint one I respect,” said James A. Pardo Jr., chair of the Chautauqua Institution Board of Trustees. “His wonderfully...
Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), under the leadership of Co-Artistic Directors Vivienne Benesch and Andrew Borba and Managing Director Sarah Clare Corporandy, is proud to announce mainstage programming for the summer of 2016. The season will feature Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), directed by Larissa Kokernot (July 1-10); The Profane, a commissioned play by Zayd Dohrn (July 22-31), directed by Vivienne Benesch; and Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (August 12-19), directed by Andrew Borba. “With a Tony-nominated treasure from this last decade, then our commissioned play, and a Shakespeare classic with a twist, we’ll be...
(Chautauqua, NY) Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), under the leadership of Co-Artistic Directors Vivienne Benesch and Andrew Borba and Managing Director Sarah Clare Corporandy, is proud to announce mainstage programming for the summer of 2016. The season will feature Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), directed by Larissa Kokernot (July 1-10); The Profane, a commissioned play by Zayd Dohrn (July 22-31), directed by Vivienne Benesch; and Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (August 12-19), directed by Andrew Borba. “With a Tony-nominated treasure from this last decade, then our commissioned play, and a Shakespeare classic with a twist,...
Chautauqua Institution is pleased to announce the appointment of Steven R. Osgood as the general and artistic director of the Chautauqua Opera Company. In this capacity, Osgood will also serve as an advocate for the company and the classical arts within and beyond the Chautauqua community. Osgood, who has served as guest conductor at CHQ many times, succeeds Jay Lesenger, who announced in April that he will step down at the end of the calendar year. “The Chautauqua Opera Company has played an important part in my professional life since my debut in 2009, and the Institution has become a...
The Chautauqua Opera Company’s 2016 season, the first under Steven Osgood as general/artistic director, mixes traditional repertoire with new multi-year initiatives. The Chautauqua Opera Company’s 2016 season will include mainstage productions of Giuseppe Verdi’s beloved opera La Traviata in the Amphitheater (July 9), directed by Keturah Stickann, and Gilbert and Sullivan’s comedic gem The Mikado in Norton Hall (July 29 and August 1), directed by Ned Canty. In addition, Chautauqua Opera will introduce two new initiatives this season: a Composer in Residence Program and a series of outdoor mini-operatic events titled “Pocket Parks Opera Invasion.” The 2016 season will conclude...
